Omagh: deadliest bombing of the Troubles remembered ten years on

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Ten years ago on Friday Donna Marie McGillion was shopping in Omagh with her fianc?, Garry, his sister Tracey and Tracey’s daughter Breda, who was to be flower girl at their wedding the following week.

At 3.10pm they were yards from a maroon Vauxhall parked in Market Street when it exploded, killing 29 people and two unborn babies in the deadliest atrocity of the Troubles.

Breda died. Garry and Tracey were severely injured. Donna Marie, then 22, was so badly burnt that she was identified only by her engagement ring, and the last rites were read. She spent months fighting